Ralph Pugh

Founder & CEO, BodySitRep

U.S. Military Veteran · CISSP · Lawton, Oklahoma

I built BodySitRep because I was tired of using five apps to track one body. Twenty years in IT and cybersecurity taught me how to protect sensitive data. Military service taught me why health documentation matters. So I built the tool I wished existed.

The problem I could not solve with existing apps

After leaving the military, I was managing multiple health conditions and tracking them the way my providers kept asking me to: with journals, spreadsheets, and whatever apps I could find. I had one app for blood pressure, another for sleep, another for headaches. None of them connected. None of them showed me the relationship between my sleep, my stress, and my symptoms.

When I walked into appointments, I could not answer the basic questions: How often do your headaches happen? How many nights did you sleep less than six hours? Did the new medication change anything? My data existed, but it was scattered across four apps and completely useless for the conversation that mattered.

For veterans specifically, the problem is worse. The VA asks for documented evidence of symptom frequency, severity, and functional impact. Most veterans show up to their C&P exam with memory and hope. I wanted to show up with structured, dated, exportable records.

Nothing on the market did what I needed. So I built it.

Why existing tools were not enough

What I built

BodySitRepis a personal health tracking platform with 80+ structured trackers covering symptoms, vitals, lifestyle, medications, mental health, women's health, fitness, and more. Each tracker uses purpose-built fields, not generic text boxes. The data it produces is organized enough to hand directly to a provider.

You can log a headache with pain level, location, duration, prostrating status, and trigger notes in under 30 seconds. You can track blood pressure with systolic, diastolic, pulse, arm, and position. You can log sleep with bedtime, wake time, quality, interruptions, and nightmare frequency. Every tracker follows the same pattern: structured, fast, and useful.

The platform includes a Daily Checklist for consistency, a Notebook that aggregates notes from every tracker into one searchable view, and CSV and PDF export for provider-ready reports. The intelligence layer, BSR, summarizes your health data into plain-language insights using deterministic logic, not generative AI. No hallucination. No guessing. Real pattern detection from real data.

BodySitRep works in any browser. No download required. Try it today.

Security is not a feature. It is the foundation.

Before I built BodySitRep, I spent two decades in information technology and cybersecurity. I hold the CISSP certification from ISC2 and the ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity credential. My professional career has been focused on protecting sensitive data, including protected health information and personally identifiable information in regulated environments.

As an Information Security Manager, I have worked with NIST frameworks, ISO standards, HIPAA compliance requirements, and SOC 2 audit processes. I have built security programs, conducted risk assessments, and led teams responsible for protecting exactly the kind of data that BodySitRep handles: personal health records.

That background directly informs every architectural decision in BodySitRep. All health data is encrypted with AES-256-GCM before storage. Database access is enforced through row-level security policies. Your data is never sold, shared, or accessible to anyone except you. Photos are stored exclusively on your device and never uploaded to any server.

I did not add security to BodySitRep after building it. I built BodySitRep on top of a security architecture because that is the only way to do it right. Your health data deserves the same protection as financial data. At BodySitRep, it gets it.

Background

I served in both the United States Navy and the United States Army, with experience spanning intelligence, aviation, and infantry. Military service taught me discipline, documentation, and the importance of accurate reporting. It also introduced me to the specific health challenges that veterans face and the documentation gaps that make VA healthcare harder than it needs to be.

After military service, I built a career in IT and cybersecurity over 20+ years. I have led security programs, managed compliance initiatives, and protected sensitive data for organizations handling health and personal information. The combination of military service, cybersecurity expertise, and personal health tracking frustration is exactly what led to BodySitRep.

Who this is for

I built BodySitRep for veterans who need documented evidence for VA claims. I built it for people managing chronic conditions who are tired of guessing what triggers their symptoms. I built it for caregivers tracking health for someone they love. I built it for anyone who has ever walked into a doctor's appointment and wished they had better data.

Health tracking should not require five apps, technical skill, or perfect health. It should be fast enough for your worst days, organized enough for your provider, and private enough that you never have to think about who else might be reading it.

“I built this because I needed it. I keep building it because other people do too.”

Ralph Pugh · Lawton, Oklahoma